Top 10 Portuguese startups with the most media mentions in 2018

From January 1 to November 2, 2018, Portuguese startups have appeared in over 2,000 media outlets, and here are the top 10 startup mentions.

The object of the study conducted by Cision was to analyze and count all the articles on Portuguese startups published in the Portuguese editorial space across more than 2,000 media outlets this year, with a whopping total of more than 4 million articles analyzed .

Top 10 Portuguese Startup Media Mentions 2018

The selection of companies in which information was collected for this study was based on the startups selected to be present at the Web Summit, as well as other startups that stood out in media terms this year.

1) Farfetch

Farfetch, the luxury online fashion unicorn, appeared the most in Portuguese media this year, having been mentioned in 1,812 news stories since the beginning of 2018.

2) OutSystems

Outsystems, which operates in the fast-developing software applications market, recently became the second company born in Portugal to achieve unicorn status with a valuation above US $ 1 billion (after Farfetch) and is also second in the Cision ranking, with presence in 851 news stories.

6) Feedzai

The world’s largest banks, payment providers and retailers use Feedzai’s machine learning technology to manage risks associated with banking and shopping, whether it’s in person, online or via mobile devices, according to Feedzai’s website.

7) Talkdesk

This year Talkdesk became the fastest Portuguese unicorn ever – taking just seven years to reach a $1 billion evaluation — overtaking Portugal’s first unicorn, Farfetch, which took eight years to reach unicorn status.

8) Aptoide

Portuguese startup and app store Aptoide recently won a landmark antitrust court case against Google, “ordering the U.S. giant to stop removing its app from users’ mobile phones without their knowledge.”

The validation of the final list that was submitted for research in the Cision database was supported by Corpcom, a Portuguese agency that since 2007 has been playing an important role in the communication of national and international startups, as well as in the communication of the Portuguese entrepreneurial ecosystem .

Cision is a global leader in communications and marketing services and software and provides an integrated service package for startups, which enables the identification of influencers worldwide with potential interest in their activity, distribution of press releases on global circuits, and monitoring of information.

Tim Hinchliffe is the editor in chief at Portugal Startups. Previously he was an editor at Colombia Reports in South America and a reporter for The Ghanaian Chronicle in West Africa. He covers all tech and startup related news. Principal at Espacio.